Well today has been a bit of a boring day for me. Catch up on a bit of sleep. I can cope for so many days of having broken sleep but then it just hits me and I have to wave the little white flag of submission and go to bed
Made a Chocolate Coca cola cake this afternoon :unsure: It tastes really nice but i have yet to put the frosting on it.......will report back the finished result
Good news is that hubbie has got his redundancy payment through, which while only being the government minim
We ventured south today to Devon Me, Mr Loo, Grandma Loo, Milo and Tilly First we decided to stalk Wibs in Taunton, to no avail :unsure: Then we took a brief tour of other areas of Devon. I could tell you why we were down in Devon but I would have to kill you if I told you <_<
Had a bad old day with Princess Tilly <_<
For some reason she has decided to either feed or cry all day :unsure: Even though I went through my son's extreme colic, I still get wound up and do all the wrong things :blink:
I think I'm going to have to leave her with hubbie and mum-in-law and bottle for an hour or so tomorrow to force her to not feed every 2 hours
Good news is that I have my car back and it cost slightly less than expect
Who knows, by the weekend we might get to
What a day :blink:
Had about 2 hours sleep between Tilly having a colicy night and me coughing :unsure:
Decided to go out to buy something nice for tea to cheer me up. Started to reverse the car and there was an almighty grinding sound and the car did not seem level
Turns out the one of the springs has snapped and was digging into the tyre. It can't be driven and the garage quoted £90 just to recover it :blink: so we upgraded our AA cover to homestart for £68 and got it taken to the ga
Well it's been a busy old time the last week or so.
How can 2 children be so different. Milo used to hate being cuddled and hardly sleep but Tilly wans to be cuddled all the time and sleeps most of the day <_<
She's good most of the time but has her moments :unsure: It's amazing how you forget how much hard work babies are She is a little cutie though and I can't believe she is almost 6 weeks old :blink:
Looking forward to mum-in-law coming next week. It's half term, so Milo wil
Well Hubbie is going for interviews all over the place.
Although there is a possibility of local job, it looks likely that, after only 3 months here, it is likely that we will have to move again
So, where next
We are frantically doing what needs to be done to the house incase we are to move <_<
Princess Tilly has a liking for 4am in the morning :unsure: but on the whole is very good. Having said that, a max of 4 hours sleep a night is starting to take affect and I am not a happy
Well after my last few entries, I thought I had better have a slightly more cheerful entry. So here goes with a piccie of my little princess <_< Feel free to come up with a caption :unsure:
Today was the day of my grandma's funeral :unsure:
It's been a long day, as I went to my brother's house last night to travel up with him today
I left Milo behind. He is too young to understand and is still not totally over his illness yet. But I took Tilly-Bea, who was fantastically well behaved dispited having lots of disruption slept really well feeding at 11pm, 3am and then 7.30am
It was a lovely service, with the minister talking very beautifully about my grandma but my youngest bro
I found out tonight that my grandma, who was 99 last friday, passed away last night :unsure:
My dad's mother, she was soooooo lovely. A spirited woman but always had time for people
I saw her just over a week ago when she saw Tilly-Bea for the first time. She was over the moon but still made a fuss of Milo to make sure he did not feel left out
I'm sad I will not see her again but know that to be half the person she was would be a fantastic achievement
A toast - To my grandma, the most
Well I was really brave last night and went out for a social night organised by the Nursery/Primary school PTA for the Mums.
It was ok, if a bit clickie (sp) with lots of well to do mothers who were wife to the Chief of police etc and sort of went quiet when I said that Little fella would not be going to Reception in September but his local school :blink: I peed a few mums off when they realised I'd had a baby less than 3 weeks ago and I was I darn site slimer than they were <_< (still
Well, it's not totally unexpected but hubbie came home tonight to tell me he is now unemployed, made redundant, factory closed
I had an expectation of it but after 9 years of working for the company it's still a little bit of a shock :blink: The annoying thing is that all pay, holiday pay is now paid at minimum wage rate
I'm trying to be upbeat and look to the positive but I feel I am the only breadwinner at the mo :unsure:
I could get really annoyed and upset that we relocated (and ha
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired today
I went up North with Milo and Tilly on Saturday to see my Grandma who is not too well. She's 99 on Friday but had a bad fall and is now laid up in bed but she was over the moon to see Milo and have a cuddle of Tilly :blink:
Unfortunately Milo's little snivel turned into full blown Man Flu when we were staying at my mum's :blink: So I had 2 very sleepless nights with my mum snoring in the other room, Milo telling me that he needed to blow his nose
I was very naughty today and bought Princess Tilly a dress and little pink tights :unsure:
I know babies should wear babygrows for the first few months but she needs one dress for special occasions <_< The dress is far too big, even though it's a 0-3 months and the tights look like Nora Battie's
We are going up North to see my Grandma, who had a bad fall last week and is in a lot of pain and I thought we would cheer her up :blink: She loves Milo to bits and I just know she will fall
Finally we have the house to ourselves
My mum came down to "help out" when I came out of hospital. She was waiting at the door when we got back :unsure:
I've always had 'issues' with my mum, who seems to take pleasure the negative side of life I won't go into detail but she was not at all helpful and ended up winding me up to the point I had to leave the house a couple of times to calm down <_<
I managed to get her to go back home yesterday and all she did was complain to my bro
Well what a busy time I've had since my last entry
MiniLoo has arrive but yet to be given an official name. We are deliberating two different ones but have to decide which is to be the first and second name
Most of the time she is very quiet but she has some moments of mega shreaks Girls seem very different to boys and I don't remember little fella being quite so scary
She has mild jaundice but nothing to worry about, apart from a slight dodgy looking tan
We were brave today and go
Oh I am soooooooooo bored at the mo
Can't do much without getting really tired/sore. Went swimming with little fella this morning which was quite nice to relieve some of the weight I'm lugging around at the mo
I was looking forward to a nice tea of Steak with Dauphinenous (sp) potatoes but hubbie is out sorting his eldest son out (very long and annoying story ) so looks like we will have to have it tomorrow
Well tomorrow is New Year's Eve and a time to reflect on the year past and the ye
Whilst I usually like snow, it's making me a bit jumpy at the mo
Although Mervin is not due for another few weeks, I keep getting the feeling there might be an early appearance
I went to see the Midwife today who reckons it could be iminent but could still be a way off She told me that if the snow gets bad (the A40 is often shut with snow) then they have a 4x4 they can send to get me, otherwise she will have to walk round and it would be a home birth
I've finally got round to packin
We were brave and went to Bristol on Monday in search of Ikea, baby stuff and flat screen TVs
I was pleasantly supprised that Ikea was virtually empty We bought a bit of stuff, shelves etc.
We also bought some bits for Merv, change mat etc but have yet to buy a cot (can't decided between a cot and cotbed) but not to worry as Merv will sleep in the carrycot bit of the pram for the first few weeks.
Then went to look at the "bargins" in the twinkling metropolis of Currys/Comet etc. We have b
I am so impatient about opening pressies, not for me but I want to see what everyone else has got
Just returned from a brief visit up North to see relatives and exchange sacks of pressies. We were supposed to be returning with 2 kids but they are ill, so quiet Christmas with me, hubbie and little fella (and Mervin kicking away)
Really looking forward to Christmas day, although little fella was sort of into it last year, he is at a much better age to get really excited about things
Anyway,
Went to the local playgroup with Little Fella yesterday and it was their Christmas Party. I knew one of the mums, who offered to look after little fella while I went to have my Vitamin B12 injection and nipped home to wrap a pressie for Santa to give to him.
When I returned 20 mins later he had his arm around some girl and she had her arm around him. They were inseparable all morning and were found in a cupboard together later Her mother was ok about it and has even invited us to come over
It was little fella's Nativity yesterday, he was a cow. So me and hubbie when to do the dutiful parent bit. I must admit to getting a bit emotional with it all (I blame the hormones )
In true Nativity fashion, various children waved to parents when they shouldn't and Mary dropped baby Jesus But it was really sweet
We had all of hubbies workmates round for drinkies and it went really well, even if I did stand up for too long and suffered for it later
I've found out that I am seriousl
Yesterday had yet more scans.
This time I actually got to see the screen when they were looking at my kidney. My right kidney is now looking very swollen. I can't remember how bad the measurements were last time but my left kidney pelvis measurement is approx 5mm and the right is 40mm
The good news is that Merv seems to still be at least 2 weeks bigger than the dates, which makes him around 36 weeks. I have to see the specialist next Monday and hopefully they will have some sort of game pla
Unfortunately Merv is a bit of a night owl and keeps practicing Kick Boxing The last 2 nights I've been lucky to get 3 hours sleep
My Glucose tolerance test came back as normal range but I'm still waiting on blood tests for abnormal red blood cells, liver function etc Then it's another ultrasound on Monday. Oh well, at least they are looking after me
Officially I have 6/7 weeks left until D-day but the growth scan showed that Merv is at least 2 weeks bigger than he should be and the
Well having spent the morning in the hospital, I get back to find a letter from the consultant wanting yet more tests No wonder the NHS is strapped for cash - I'm using up all the budgets :unsure:
It appears my red blood cells are too big and I could be lacking B12 or have an underactive thyroid gland Plus they want to check I don't have a kidney infection
This morning was such fun Take some blood then made to drink a container of orangy coloured liquid which tasted like flat, swe
Well the house is starting to look more like our own
We have painted the top half of the kitchen/dinning room and the sitting room. Hubbie has spent most of the day cursing and banging getting our oh so sexy silver and shiny black shelving system up
Little fella has been chucked into Mervin/spare room, so I can paint his room before the new carpets arrive
We went to the Maternity unit today for a guided tour to find nobody there Eventually a kind midwife offered to give us a quick look
